Issue #165

Jan 19 2017

Editor Picks

A short history of color theory
Although a basic understanding of the color spectrum is rather easy to develop, color theory is an almost infinitely complex subject with roots in both science and art. It can therefore be a daunting task to learn about color composition in a way that is true to both art history and scientific truth...

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Scraping for Craft BeersIf you have read some of my posts in the past, you know by now that I enjoy a good craft beer. I decided to mix business with pleasure and write a tutorial about how to scrape a craft beer dataset from a website in Python...

The More You Know: Using Knowledge Graphs for Image ClassificationHumans have the remarkable capability to learn a large variety of visual concepts, often with very few examples, whereas current state-of-the-art vision algorithms require hundreds or thousands of examples per category and struggle with ambiguity. One characteristic that sets humans apart is our ability to acquire knowledge about the world and reason using this knowledge. This paper investigates the use of structured prior knowledge in the form of knowledge graphs and shows that using this knowledge improves performance on image classification...

Scaling Recommendation Engine: 15,000 to 130M Users in 24 MonthsDelivering users with precise product recommendations (recs) is the creative force that drives Retention Science to continue to iterate, improve and innovate. In this post, our team unveils our iteration from a minimum viable product to a production-ready solution...

Jobs

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Training & Resources

The Anatomy of Deep Learning FrameworksIn this post, I have tried to sketch out these common principles which would help you better understand the frameworks and for the brave hearts among you, provide a guide on how to implement your own deep learning framework...

Machine Learning for Artists
In general, this book will try to minimize the use of math, and rely on visual aides more than equations, both because neural networks can be well understood this way, and because it helps reduce the need for other qualifications...

Books

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